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Layer 2s Rank No. 4 and No. 6 by Total Value Locked

Overlooked DEX Challenges Uniswap by Taking Four of Top 10 Places on Layer 2

The staked ETH derivative will be launched on Arbitrum and Optimism.

Loopring and Boba Network Shed Nearly $2B in TVL

18M OP stolen OP tokens have been returned.

Soaring Fees in Otherdeeds Land Sale Drives Community to Layer 2s

20M OP tokens that were loaned to market maker Wintermute have been stolen by parties unknown.

Eligible users can now claim their $VELO airdrops.

Optimism Struggles to Handle Surge for OP Token

A step-by-step guide to claiming Optimism’s $OP airdrop.

Crypto users are speculating that Optimism could drop its OP token as early as tomorrow.

Web3 blog platform Mirror now lets writers sell their essays as NFTs. Mirror, a kind of Medium meets Web3, lets bloggers publish essays on the Ethereum blockchain, then vote on the best ones with the platform’s governance token.  Upstart writers could already sell NFTs on the platform and hold crowdsales – they’ve raised $15.36M since …

17,000 addresses have been disqualified from the Optimism airdrop with 14M OP tokens reallocated.

Ethereum scaling solution Optimism today announced Bedrock, an upgrade that improves speeds and cuts costs for those that trade on the L2. Optimism is a rollup: a Layer 2 scaling solution that batches transactions on another blockchain, then feeds them back to Ethereum as a single transaction. Rollups enjoy the security of Ethereum’s mainnet while …

Speculation Mounts About Prices and Airdrops